Book description
How do you lead a fulfilling life? That profound question animates this
book of inspiration and insight from world-class business strategist and
bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen.
After beating a heart attack, advanced-stage cancer and a stroke in
three successive years, the world-renowned innovation expert and author
of one of the best selling and most influential business books of all
time - The Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton M. Christensen delivered a
short but powerful speech to the Harvard Business School graduating
class. He presented a set of personal guidelines that have helped him
find meaning and happiness in his life - a challenge even the brightest
and most motivated of students find daunting.
Akin to The Last Lecture in its revelatory perspective following
life-altering events, that speech subsequently became a hugely popular
article in the Harvard Business Review and is now a groundbreaking book,
putting forth a series of questions and models for success that have
long been applied in the world of business, but also can be used to find
cogent answers to pressing life questions: How can I be sure that I'll
find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my relationships
with my spouse, my family and my close friends become enduring sources
of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my integrity (and stay out of jail)?
How Will You Measure Your Life? is a highly original, surprising book
from a singular business figure. It's a book sure to inspire and educate
readers - companies and individuals, students of business, mid-career
professionals, and even parents - the world over. “If you're ready to
get deep, real quick, you need to read Clay Christensen's new book, How
Will You Measure Your Life?, co-written with James Allworth, a
consultant and Harvard MBA, and Karen Dillon, former editor of the
Harvard Business Review. It mixes tested business theories and a heap of
common sense. It's one of the more surprisingly powerful books of
personal philosophy of the 21st century.”
Forbes
“How Will You Measure Your Life? is an intriguing paradox. A self-help
book that is not a self-help book, based on rigorous research but
enlivened by anecdotes about the experiences of a man who is hailed as a
model by his students. It neatly reverses the technique of those
business bestsellers that use the lives and careers of great leaders -
from Attila the Hun to General George Patton - to lay down timeless
rules for corporate executives.”
Financial Times
“[A] highly engaging and intensely revealing work….Spiritual without
being preachy, this work is especially relevant for young people
embarking on their career, but also useful for anyone who wants to live
a more meaningful life in accordance with their values.”
Publishers Weekly
“The book encapsulates Christensen's best advice to keep high achievers
from being disrupted in their own lives….[P]rovocative but reassuring:
Peter Drucker meets Mitch Albom.” Bloomberg Businessweek
Praise for The Innovator's Dilemma:
"Addresses a tough problem that most successful companies will
face eventually. It's lucid, analytical-and scary."
Dr. Andrew S. Grove, Chairman, Intel Corporation
"The Innovator's Dilemma is absolutely brilliant. Clayton
Christensen provides an insightful analysis of changing technology and
its importance to a company's future success. I highly recommend this
book for anyone interested in business or entrepreneurship."
Michael R. Bloomberg, CEO and Founder, Bloomberg Financial Markets
Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business
Administration at the Harvard Business School. In addition to his most
recent book, How Will You Measure Your Life, he is the author of seven
critically-acclaimed books, including several New York Times bestsellers
- The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution and most recently,
Disrupting Class. Christensen is the co-founder of Innosight, a
management consultancy; Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm; and the
Innosight Institute, a non-profit think tank. In 2011, he was named the
world's most influential business thinker by Thinkers50.
A native of Australia, James Allworth is a graduate of the Harvard
Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar, and the Australian
National University. He writes regularly for the Harvard Business
Review. He has previously worked at Booz & Company, and Apple.
Karen Dillon was Editor of the Harvard Business Review until 2011. She
previously served as deputy editor of Inc magazine and was editor and
publisher of the critically-acclaimed American Lawyer magazine. She is a
graduate of Cornell University and Northwestern University's Medill
School of Journalism. In 2011, she was named by Ashoka as one of the
world's most influential and inspiring women.
